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Create a single Storage/SAN (Storage Area Network) appliance
to provide all your storage and backup needs
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Higher data transfer speed than regular file transfer protocol (NAS)
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You can
boot from iSCSI which you can not do with NAS. What it means is that you
can allocate a piece of your iSCSI storage to an external computer, load an
operating system there and boot your computer from that iSCSI storage
instead of an internal hard drive. You can even have multiple different OSes
for the same computer and depending on what your needs are, you select which
OS to boot from.
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Content of
the iSCSI volumes that you allocate to a computer can not be seen or
accessed from any other computer. That is a requirement for some
environments. NAS shares are visible to all computers on the same network.
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You can
have SAN (Storage Area Network) without the high costs of Fibre Channel
SAN equipments.
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When you give an iSCSI
volume to a computer, that volume looks like a local disk in that
computer. It kind of looks like you added a hard drive to that
computer. So when you run out of room to add hard drives to your computers you
can get an external iSCSI storage and provide additional storage for your
computers.
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You can use
Apple's Time Machine to backup your apple computers into an iSCSI
storage
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You can have your
storage
in one building and computers in another building
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You can back up your
computers into an iSCSI storage in a different building to protect your data
against disasters
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iSCSI Storage provides
for a central storage for multiple computers which make it much
easier to manage.
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There are
some environments that require iSCSI storage and do not run on NAS
shares. Examples of these environments are some virtualization environments,
some particular applications, or data bases, and several more
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Can create bigger than 2TB
iSCSI volumes
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Storage Expansion through iSCSI
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Supports internal or external
drives
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You can
take immediate or scheduled snapshot (shadow copy):
- To
recover lost files
- To use them
for backup
- To Revert
content of a volume to a previous date
- To
Convert a snapshot to a volume
